Swiss 18k yellow gold minute repeating watch Circa 1880

USD 6,000 – 8,000 / EUR 4,700 – 6,500 – Sold: USD 8,850 / Euro 7,000
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Open faced watch by H. Meylan made for Dillon Hanchor & Co.
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A very fine 18K yellow gold Swiss, keyless, minute repeating pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, register and superior adjustment, circa 1880. Retailed by Dillon Hanchor & Co. Wheeling, West Virginia. A solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel dial with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph divisions, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands.

Superior Adjustment, bridge calibre movement, Geneva striping decoration, 39 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometre regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Movement signed, case numbered, dial signed by the retailer.
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Diameter: 51 mm
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Signed: Dillon Hanchor & Co.  West Virginia